“For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.”
Mark 14:7 (WEB)
Context Reading
5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denariiand given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her. 6But Jesus said,“Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. 7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. 8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. 9Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”